Quotes About Strength

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.

I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime

nobody can save you but yourself and you're worth saving. it's a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Artillery is the god of war.

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.

Force is the weapon of the weak.

I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."

If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy's terms.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Great battles are won with artillery.

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.